Sentences with phrase «environmental groups sued»

Today, a coalition of environmental groups sued the U.S. State Department and Fish & Wildlife Service to stop that work: the clearing of grasslands, the moving of threatened species, and other work they say TransCanada is doing illegally in advance of the proposed $ 7 billion pipeline.Reuters reports that the Center for Biological Diversity, the Western Nebraska Resources Council and Friends of the Earth filed the suit [PDF] in the U.S. District Court in Nebraska.

At this point, certain states and environmental groups sued EPA to force a return to the legally mandated Utility MACT rule.

Last October the Sierra Club and two other environmental groups sued Kern County over its approval of a 300 - megawatt NextEra Energy Resources wind farm that state and federal officials warn poses a high risk to condors (2).

Three years after environmental groups sued to force the Interior Department to consider protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration today listed the species as threatened — on track to be endangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warming Arctic.

Environmental groups sued to force the completion of a new study.

In 2010 environmental groups sued Salem Station's owner, Dominion Energy.

Environmental groups sued President Trump Hours after he announced he would shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monuments in Utah.

But Jim Angell, lead attorney for the Oakland, Calif. — based public interest law firm Earthjustice, which represents a host of environmental groups suing the BLM, says this 1 percent stipulation is «an accounting trick.

Not exact matches

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration for selling oil and gas leases on huge swaths of Western U.S. public lands while allegedly ignoring policies meant to protect an imperiled bird.

Environmental group DUH sued city authorities in Stuttgart, in Germany's carmaking heartland, and in Duesseldorf over levels of particulate matter exceeding European Union limits.

Environmental group DUH has sued Stuttgart in Germany's carmaking heartland, and Duesseldorf over levels of particulate matter exceeding...

This was driven in part by the rise of public interest litigation — think, for example, of an environmental group finding a third - party plaintiff to sue a company to stop an environmentally sensitive development project.

After protesting the budget Suffolk County leaders approved last fall, environmental groups have now sued the county over its use of nearly $ 33 million in funds that were raised through the Drinking Water Protection Program, a self - imposed tax that Suffolk residents have voted to levy upon themselves several times since the late 1980s.

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo this afternoon brushed aside any concerns that the environmental group Riverkeeper plans to sue to halt the construction of a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge.

A conservative environmental law group is suing Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over his effort to investigate whether Exxon - Mobil misrepresented its position on climate change.

While the county and some environmental groups remain in court over similar action taken in 2011, Bob DeLuca, executive director of Group for the East End — which did not take legal action then — said his organization's members are deciding for themselves whether or not to sue.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has signed a 2014 budget previously amended by county legislators earlier this month, though the amended plan has environmental groups preparing to sue over how the county is balancing its books.

Three environmental groups are suing a number of New York state officials and agencies over the planned use of Clean Water Act funds for the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge.

Three environmental groups are suing New York State agencies and officials over the planned use of Clean Water Act funds for construction activities surrounding the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge.

The New York Times reported in 2011 that Cuomo, as New York's attorney general in 2009, used his office to threaten legal action against Chevron when Hinton was being paid $ 10,000 a month as a lobbyist for a group suing the oil giant in a multibillion - dollar court action alleging massive environmental damage in the Amazon.

Environmental groups have sued the federal government to bar the sale of Plum Island in Southold and overturn its environmental Environmental groups have sued the federal government to bar the sale of Plum Island in Southold and overturn its environmental environmental impact study.

Seven environmental groups on Monday told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that they penvironmental groups on Monday told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that they pEnvironmental Protection Agency that they plan to sue...

An environmental group is suing a New York State agency over a power plant in the Hudson Valley.

That prompted the Natural Resources Defense Council and a coalition of other environmental groups to sue the Navy in federal court, claiming the sonar poses an unacceptable risk to marine life.

Another coalition of environmental groups has sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to reverse a two - year delay of another methane rule, this one governing emissions from drilling on federal and Indian lands.

Environmental groups that sued to overturn the 4 (d) rule said today that they plan to press their lawsuit.

Environmental groups have also sued to upgrade protections for the bear from «threatened» to «endangered,» and the state of Alaska and the Pacific Legal Foundation filed two separate lawsuits that attempt to block protection of the bear.

Despite the findings of these studies and others, the EPA did not update emission factors for the U.S. refinery and petrochemical sector until 2015, seven years after Houston had petitioned the agency to do so and two years after it was sued by environmental justice groups.

The EPA has yet to issue its «endangerment finding,» despite pressure from environmental groups who first sued the agency to start the rulemaking process in 2010.

The environmental group Earthjustice has sued the EPA in an effort to ban all remaining uses of chlopyrifos.

Although this means Trump still has the power to revoke regulations for the energy industry, it is also likely that environmental groups and others will sue the administration for changing the rules, experts say.

On Wednesday, a coalition of environmental health groups sued the EPA, asking a federal court to require a ban on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that can interfere with brain development.

The EPA had been under pressure from environmental groups who first petitioned it to regulate aircraft emissions under the Clean Air Act in 2007 and sued it in 2010.

Speed limits on ships have been of some help in saving the North Atlantic right whales from being killed in collisions, suggest studies by the US government and independent researchers — and environmental groups are suing to expand the areas where protection measures are in force.

Native American tribes and environmental groups have already said that they will sue the government over its attempt to reshape Bears Ears.

Q: An environmental group has sued several pet stores and manufacturers claiming that flea collars have high concentrations of chemicals in them that are dangerous to pets and people.

The Obama Administration, is under a court imposed settlement to issue these standards, which they have violated; they have issued and then withdrawn draft rules for new power plants after strong pushback from the power sector; and EPA is about to get sued by environmental groups for violating the settlement.

Greenpeace was one of several environmental groups that sued to gain protection for the bears.

Other approaches to safeguarding the bears, like the push by some environmental groups to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases under the Endangered Species Act, are likely to be about as effective as trying to stop a bus from rolling down a hill by suing the manufacturer over faulty brakes.

A number of states and several business groups prepare to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the rules to cut carbon emissions, which is expected to set off a large number of law suits.

When the Deepwater Wind contract was approved by the state government in 2010, ratepayers on the mainland, the state's attorney general and the environmental group Conservation Law Foundation all sued, citing the high cost and alleged strong arm tactics employed to get the project approved.

There is no real «sue and settle scam» issue with environmental and public health groups and the EPA.

9/19/17 — Three environmental groups are now suing the US government for delaying higher fines for automakers whose new vehicles don't meet fuel economy standards.

Kert Davies, the research director for Greenpeace U.S.A., one of three environmental groups that sued the Interior Department in 2005 to force it to add polar bears to the list of threatened species, said the administration was «clearly scrambling for credibility of any kind in this issue.»

My suspicion is there must be something in enabling legislation somewhere which gives established environmental groups, such as the Sierra Club, standing to sue.

In a decision that strikes a blow against the federal government's controversial practice of excluding industry from consent decrees with environmental citizen groups, a practice known as «sue - and - settle,» the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's approval of a consent decree between a coalition of environmental groups and several federal agencies in Conservation Northwest v. Sherman, No. 11 - 35729 (9th Cir.

And early in his tenure, he sued to keep the EPA from settling lawsuits brought by environmental groups like the Sierra Club.

With Republicans controlling the White House and Congress, environmental groups are, in effect, «lawyering up,» vowing to counter any «drill baby drill» efforts with a «sue baby sue» response.

If it does not, liberal states and environmental groups are likely to sue the agency based on its carbon endangerment finding — an agency review ordered by the Supreme Court in 2007.